Thesis--Strasbourg. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin, 1922. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: p. [vii]-viii.

This thesis presents twenty-one unpublished Greek literary and documentary texts from Oxyrhynchus kept in the Sackler Library, Oxford. Each papyrus is identified, transcribed, and edited with a detailed introduction and notes largely in accordance with the conventions and format of presentation of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri (London 1898–). The literary texts are diverse in content. The item of especial interest is a new fragment from Sophocles’ Tereus, which joins a quotation from Stobaeus’ Anthologium. It provides new information on the play’s dramatis personae and the long vexed question of where the quotation is to be located in the play. Another new text is the remains of an unknown hexameter poem on a mythical subject which refers to the Lapiths and Centaurs. From the known texts, a minute fragment of Polybius’ Historiae, a fragment Plutarch’s Alexander and two fragments of Plato’s Philebus stand out due to the rarity of these texts. The documentary texts illustrate a variety of matters tending on social, economic, fiscal, and legal aspects of life in Roman and late antique Oxyrhynchus. Of the texts from the Roman period, a text dealing with the execution of a testamentary bequest and another text concerning a summons to the prefect’s conventus are notable for the information which they provide on the functioning of testamentary bequests and the practice of litigation respectively. Of the four texts from the Byzantine period, an Oxyrhynchite lease of land is of special importance due to the comparative rarity of documents of this kind from Oxyrhynchus and because it exhibits a number of points of interest, not least that the lessee is a colonus adscripticius. A ‘sale on delivery of wine’ also involves a colonus adscripticius. The other document of special interest is a large private letter which concerns various matters of business from a man who claims to be in a precarious situation.

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La figure du stratège joue un rôle fondamental dans l’administration de l’Égypte à l’époque romaine. Parmi les papyrus grecs provenant de l’Égypte, une trentaine de textes d’annonces publiques, émises par ce fonctionnaire, ont été conservés. Leur contenu concerne de multiples aspects de l’administration du nome ; une quinzaine de ces annonces environ concernent la nomination à la fonction de liturge, et forment un groupe homogène. La caractéristique de ces annonces contenant des nominations aux liturgies, c’est qu’elles sont exposées au public : de cette manière, toute la communauté et, notamment, les personnes concernées peuvent connaître les noms des personnes chargées d’exécuter une liturgie donnée. Pour ce type d’avis, le langage bureaucratique va certainement utiliser le terme de προγράμματα. Le système d’attribution de ces fonctions est amplement utilisé au cours des IIe et IIIe siècles apr. J.-C. par les Romains, qui héritent une coutume déjà présente en Égypte sous la dynastie ptolémaïque, mais dont ils développent cependant les potentialités. Les liturgies sont formées par des prestations et des services dont doivent s’acquitter les sujets égyptiens de l’empire qui vivent dans les cités et les villages. Ces services varient amplement quant au cadre – de la culture et de l’entretien des canaux, à l’adjudication des impôts, et aux charges administratives locales –, mais aussi en ce qui concerne leur durée et leur engagement économique exigé. Notre étude prévoit la réédition des textes d’après les originaux ou des photos numérisées haute définition : une partie du travail, en effet, sera consacrée à la réalisation de tableaux contenant les images de chaque προγράμμα. / The strategus plays a key role in the Roman administration of Egypt. About 30 texts are preserved among Greek papyri from Egypt, which are public notices published by that officer. The subjects of these documents are various and related to different aspects of the regional administration (nomos); approximately fifteen of them concern the appointment to liturgies and they form an homogenous group. The proclamations containing the liturgical appointments are always posted in public in order to let the community, and specifically the concerned people, know the names of those who will be in charge of the compulsory public services. This kind of proclamations are known as προγράμματα in bureaucratic language. The liturgical system assigning compulsory services is widely used during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD by Romans, who inherit this custom, which was already prevailing during the Ptolemaic dynasty, and developed its full potential. The liturgies consist in services performed by the Egyptian subjects of the empire who lived in towns and villages. Such services cover a wealth of fields of work, from cultivating the land and maintaining the irrigation system to tax-farming and local administration tasks, and the term and the economic burden required could be different for each of them. My work involves the editing of the texts based on the original copies or using high resolution images: an important part of the work will be actually devoted to setting up plates containing the images of each πρóγραμμα.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-327). Also available on the Internet.

Inaug.-Diss.--Giessen. / Vita. Papyruspublikationen": p. x.

The editor's Thesis--Oxford. / Text in Greek; translation, commentary, and notes in English. Bibliography: p. 278-280.

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